I have this working on my main computer running 11.2... nvidia 390.67 driver installed from PORTS (with ACPI_PM option enabled) as
However, on a 2nd computer (w/ Asus GeForce GT 1030 video card) I am trying to setup with 11.2... the nvidia driver it tries to install via PORTS is 390.77_2. It hangs near the end with err messages about conflicting 'proto' packages as it wants to install 'xorgproto'. So I searched and found those old *proto packages had to be removed. So I removed them with
The problem now is that trying to upgrade or install any packages via
startx
would not start if the driver was installed via the PKG method.However, on a 2nd computer (w/ Asus GeForce GT 1030 video card) I am trying to setup with 11.2... the nvidia driver it tries to install via PORTS is 390.77_2. It hangs near the end with err messages about conflicting 'proto' packages as it wants to install 'xorgproto'. So I searched and found those old *proto packages had to be removed. So I removed them with
pkg version -l \? | cut -f 1 -w | grep -v compat | xargs pkg delete -fy
and reinstalled 'x11/nvidia-driver and it installed x11/xorgproto fine... and startx
starts ok now.The problem now is that trying to upgrade or install any packages via
pkg
... it keeps wanting to install all those removed 'proto' packages under 'New packages to be INSTALLED:' And there are like 23 of them. Is there any way to ignore them?